Bash history empty on login

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:05-0500, Andre Goree wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:59:51 -0500, Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at onpointfc.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hope I'm not offending you if the following are things
> > you've tried as a matter-of-course:
> > 
> > After booting up, is history started, or do you have to do
> > that manually?  Have you run "set -o" to see if history is
> > enabled?  If it isn't, then "set -o history".  Is a "clear"
> > command being issued from anywhere upon logout or reboot?
> > 
> > Just some thoughts.
> > 
> 
> No offense at all, thanks for your suggestions!  I'm currently at work so I'll
> test this when I get home (this is on a desktop running 8.3-stable).  I've
> never had to do anything special when using bash on FreeBSD.  I'll be sure to
> check th output of "set -o" and report back here.
> 
> If there's an erroneous 'clear' command somewhere, it must be on logout since
> I can easily test this problem being that I use tmux.  :)  I also do not have
> a .bash_logout file, if that matters.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, I'll let you know what turns up.

What are the permissions of ~/.bash_history?

Usually they are set to 0600 in octal due to security concerns and 
rightfully so. Could they be (re)set to 0400 or even 0000?

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